Thanks for the notice Ron, we have had a good run, and most of the years out of that dozen or so have been wonderful, most of us that are still here from the beginning have made and lost good friends here, and we've had some members that weren't so good.
For the relatively short time that this forum has existed allot of water has passed over it's dam, it will be sad for me to not make this place my first stop every morning with my first cup of coffee, I can remember days when that morning log in lasted until suppertime, though we were never that big a forum in number we were close and the discussions were many and varied, most of what I'll miss has already passed, there are only a handful of us left now and we all knew that the end was coming.
If I had to choose the one thing that I'll miss most about the B&B forum I think it will be the recipes that we all shared and those conversations that revolved around or developed from talking about food, I still make our favorite Chocolate Cake from a recipe that Smoke Walker posted way back when, not long ago I dug back in those early threads to find his recipe for Southern Sweet Tea, I hope there is some way that all that history can be saved.
Every once in a while when there's a glitch in the forum software and we can't log in we usually find it upsetting, It's hard to imagine never being able to log on again.
Thanks to you and Red for starting it up and you for keeping it going for as long as you've been able to, though B&B has not been as big a part of my life as it used to be when it and us were all in our prime, but when it finally goes I for one will miss it dearly.